Written by

Rob Neufeld
| Visiting Our Past

Motorists on the Biltmore Estate approach road in the early 1940s "would stop in amazement" when the Austin boys took their dogs to the swamp to chase rabbits, Mark-Ellis Bennett wrote in the "Biltmore Beacon."

Harold and Ruel, sons of the estate's Chief Ranger, Claude C. Austin, had a menagerie in tow, Ruel recalled in an interview with Bennett. ...